witness (hendiWritings)
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<witness> (witness) contains either a description of a single witness referred to within the critical apparatus, or a list of witnesses which is to be referred to by a single sigil.
Other Customizations
Attributes
xml:id
opt
(identifier)
provides a unique identifier for the element bearing the attribute.
n
req
Datatype
teidata.count
rend
opt
(rendition)
indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text.
Possible values
non-accessible
Privately owned respectively not accessible source
lost
Outsourced, destroyed or otherwise lost source
Example
<listWit>
<witness xml:id="EL">Ellesmere, Huntingdon Library 26.C.9</witness>
<witness xml:id="HG">Hengwrt, National Library of Wales,
Aberystwyth, Peniarth 392D</witness>
<witness xml:id="RA2">Bodleian Library Rawlinson Poetic 149
(see further <ptr target="http://www.examples.com/MSdescs#MSRP149"/>)</witness>
</listWit>
